Go Off! · Cacophony

72 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 1:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:42
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27 and 31-40 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
GO OFF! · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 10, 25, 28, 29 and 61.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 10 sections: 33 keep time, 7 are fills, 18 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-42.

PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
PART G
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKBRS3T+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Go Off!?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Go Off! hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Go Off!?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 10, 25, 28, 29 and 61.

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